{"id":633,"date":"2006-11-13T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2006-11-13T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:06:44","slug":"how-i-almost-wasnt-an-e-pro-why-you-shouldnt-wait-to-the-last-minute-to-do-your-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/633\/how-i-almost-wasnt-an-e-pro-why-you-shouldnt-wait-to-the-last-minute-to-do-your-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"How I almost wasn’t an e-Pro: Why you shouldn’t wait to the last minute to do your homework . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shhh. Come closer. I have a confession to make. This past week I became an e-Pro<\/a>! It took me an entire<\/i> six months to become one — not because it was so difficult, nor because I was so very busy, but because I wasn’t motivated. Then why, you might wonder, particularly if you are in the techno-crowd who subscribes to RSS feeds and reads this weblog, would I have spent $359 and any precious time at all to earn my tinfoil badge<\/a>?<\/p>\n

About the time I enrolled Greg and myself in the e-Pro program, I was finishing up my GRI<\/a> courses and Greg had just earned his CRS<\/a> and ABR<\/a> designations. I had taken the ABR courses with Greg, but couldn’t earn the designation yet because I didn’t have enough buyer sides. In fact, the only NAR-recognized designation left to me at that point in my career was e-Pro. And, as I explained to Greg while twisting his arm to join me in getting the designation, it was just plain silly for the two of us to not be able to promote ourselves as being technologically astute. Other Realtors who hadn’t even known email basics before taking the e-Pro course were able, with NAR’s blessing, to promote themselves as<\/p>\n

highly skilled and continuously trained professionals who provide high quality and innovative online-based real estate services.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further,<\/p>\n

Consumers can identify the e-PRO through the exclusive e-PRO Internet Professional logo.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I can’t come close to Greg or even Cameron when it comes to IT proficiency, but I left a job as an IT consultant at PerotSystems<\/a> when I began working as a Realtor. So if a consumer of real estate services wants someone with technology skills to help buy or sell his house, and believes that the e-Pro designation is the industry’s endorsement of a Realtor’s IT competence, and we didn’t<\/i> have the designation, we might be missing the opportunity to meet the very type of people whom we could serve best. <\/p>\n

So, I enrolled us both in the e-Pro course, and by the end of the week Greg had begrudgingly earned his designation. He just sat Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shhh. Come closer. I have a confession to make. This past week I became an e-Pro! It took me an entire six months to become one — not because it was so difficult, nor because I was so very busy, but because I wasn’t motivated. 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